News — Civil Engineering

How Electricians Use Matterport to Modernize Job Sites, Cut Costs, and Prevent Errors Spatial intelligence tools like Matterport are reshaping trade industries, particularly for electrical contractors. Traditionally relied upon by real estate agents and architects, 3D reality capture technology gives electricians a digital twin of job sites—fundamentally changing how projects are planned, documented, and executed. 1. Pre-Construction Site Audits & Remote Estimating Before running a single foot of conduit or pulling wire, trade contractors must survey the space. Standard site visits often mean taking manual tape measurements, snapping disjointed smartphone photos, and sketching quick notes on notepad paper. Matterport replaces...

Bailey Civils are an established Civil Engineering contractor based in the West Midlands. They work for a variety of clients: Local Authority, Defence, Commercial and Domestic with a multitude of projects that really showcase their ability to tackle any technical challenge. Investment in Efficiency The majestic blue Kobelco excavator of Bailey Civils will be familiar to anyone who attended the Plantworx exhibition as it was a feature on the Kobelco stand as a great example of how technology can be used to increase efficiencies. To make sure this machine could reach the peak of productivity, it was kitted out with the latest...

 In their latest release, Matterport has given a taste of what’s to come in Reality Capture technology. They’re rolled out an update that’s free for all their subscribers where users can scan a space and then automatically generate a property report featuring a layout plan where each room has been identified by AI and categorised. As well as the floorplan, each floor area and ceiling height is listed in the report and can be exported as a CSV for onward data processing, thereby going from scan to actionable data in no time at all.     Aside from this property...

We're delighted to feature in a new video on the Diggers and Dozers Youtube channel, where golf course construction expert Patrick Quinn of P. Quinn Construction discusses how he came to choose what machine control system to put on his fleet of excavators. Spoiler: he chose to get Unicontrol supplied and fitted by Surveytech... In the video, he explains how he has invested in two Unicontrol systems for his 15 ton and 13 ton Hitachi excavators that are both equipped with Engcon tilt rotators. There are three factors that Patrick said made him choose Unicontrol: Ease of use - “we’ve got...